Description

The follow-up to their critically acclaimed record Multi-Love, Sex & Food
sees UMO mastermind Ruban Nielson tap into both familiar and unexpected
territory.

The delightfully shape-shifting album filters real-deal serious themes such
as "What are we consuming? How is it affecting us, and why does everything feel
so bad and weird sometimes?” through a vibrant sonic lens that spans battered
drum-machine funk, doomy and thrashing rock, and pink-hued psychedelic disco.
It’s not a dark record, per se. Even the album’s title, Sex & Food,
focuses on two of the most undeniably pleasurable experiences in life;
positivity despite the strangeness of our times.

Sex & Food was recorded in a variety of locales from Seoul and Hanoi to
Reykjavik, Mexico City, and Auckland, not to mention Nielson's home base studio
in Portland. It is a practical musical travelogue, traversing the world as well
as a wide spectrum of human experience. Nielson grapples with new, sometimes
dismal realities, but succeeds in pulling the epiphanies from the chafe.